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| Language: | Old English |
| Origin: | felan |
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feel1 S1 W1
past tense and past participle felt
past tense and past participle felt
1 to experience a particular physical feeling or emotion : 
Do you still feel hungry?You can never tell what he's feeling. Stop exercising if you feel any pain.
feeling/emotion
[linking verb, transitive]Do you still feel hungry?You can never tell what he's feeling.Stop exercising if you feel any pain.2 to notice something that is happening to you, especially something that is touching you : She felt his warm breath on her cheek. The earthquake was felt as far south as San Diego.
notice
[transitive not in progressive]She felt his warm breath on her cheek.The earthquake was felt as far south as San Diego.3 to give you a particular physical feeling, especially when you touch or hold something
feel smooth/dry etc
[linking verb] feel as if/as though My leg feels as if it's broken.
My leg feels as if it's broken.4 if a situation, event etc feels good, strange etc, that is the emotion or feeling that it gives you : After twenty years, seeing him again felt very strange.
feel good/strange/exciting etc
[linking verb]After twenty years, seeing him again felt very strange.5 to have a particular opinion, especially one that is based on your feelings, not on facts
have an opinion
[transitive not usually in progressive] feel about How would you feel about working with Nicole for a while? The experience of rape can change how a woman feels about her body.
How would you feel about working with Nicole for a while?The experience of rape can change how a woman feels about her body. feel sure/certain (=think that something is definitely true) She felt sure she'd made the right decision.
She felt sure she'd made the right decision.6 to want to have something or do something : He didn't feel like going to work. Do you feel like another drink?
feel like (doing) something
spokenHe didn't feel like going to work.Do you feel like another drink?7 to touch something with your fingers to find out about it : She felt his forehead. Perhaps he had a temperature. Mum, feel this stone. Isn't it smooth?
touch
[transitive]She felt his forehead. Perhaps he had a temperature.Mum, feel this stone. Isn't it smooth?8 to search for something with your fingers : She felt in her bag for a pencil.
feel around/on/in etc something (for something)
She felt in her bag for a pencil.9 to experience the good or bad results of something : The local economy is beginning to feel the effects of the recession.
feel the force/effects/benefits etc of something
The local economy is beginning to feel the effects of the recession.10 to believe that you need to do something : Children who can talk to their parents feel less need to try drugs.
feel the need to do something
Children who can talk to their parents feel less need to try drugs.11
feel your way
a) to move carefully, with your hands out in front of you, because you cannot see properly : Silently, she felt her way across the room.
Silently, she felt her way across the room.b) to do things slowly and carefully, because you are not completely sure about a new situation
12 used to tell someone that they can do something if they want to : 'Could I use your phone for a minute?' 'Feel free.'
feel free
spoken'Could I use your phone for a minute?' 'Feel free.'13 used to express sympathy with someone or with a remark they have just made : I know how you feel, Mark, but maybe it's better not to confront him.
I know (just/exactly) how you feel
spokenI know how you feel, Mark, but maybe it's better not to confront him.14 to not feel as healthy or happy as usual : I don't know what's wrong. I just don't feel quite myself.
not feel yourself
spokenI don't know what's wrong. I just don't feel quite myself.15 to realize that you are not as young or active as you used to be : Looking at his grandson made him really feel his age.
feel your age
Looking at his grandson made him really feel his age.16 to suffer because of cold or hot weather : Old people tend to feel the cold more.
feel the cold/heat
Old people tend to feel the cold more.17 to react very strongly to a bad event, especially someone's death : Susan felt her grandmother's death more than the others.
feel a death/a loss etc
Susan felt her grandmother's death more than the others.feel for somebody
phrasal verbAt the Center, the other mothers know what it's like, and they really feel for you.feel somebody ↔ out
phrasal verbI thought I'd feel out some of my colleagues before the meeting.feel somebody ↔ up
phrasal verbfeel up to something
phrasal verbI just didn't feel up to going.